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Jr Software Engineer - Databases

Mitchell Martin, Inc.United States🇺🇸United StatesPosted 30 Jul 2026

Quick Overview

Salary
$45 - $60/hr
Work Type
Hybrid
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Title: Jr Software Engineer - Databases           

Location: Madison, WI (Remote Eligible)
Employment Type: Contract

Compensation:
Pay Range:$45.00-$60.00 Per HR

Description
Join our team as a Jr Software Engineer focusing on database administration. 
This remote-eligible contract role involves supporting and optimizing complex database applications. 
You''ll work with a variety of technologies and collaborate with multiple teams to ensure system scalability, security, and performance.

Key Responsibilities
Support daily operations of databases to ensure system availability and perform scheduled maintenance.
Optimize database performance through monitoring tools, query tuning, and operational enhancements.
Troubleshoot database systems, including patching, event monitoring, and incident management.
Collaborate with development teams to implement and test performance improvements.
Automate provisioning, patching, backups, and monitoring tasks using infrastructure as code.

Qualifications
Bachelor''s Degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
1 year of experience in database administration using a generic database technology, including installation, configuration, and maintenance.
Experience with cloud environments and optimizing database and query performance.
Experience in database programming using queries, triggers, and stored procedures.
Understanding of high availability and disaster recovery solutions.

Core Technologies
PostgreSQL | Amazon RDS | AWS | Terraform | CloudFormation | Python | Bash | Prometheus | Datadog

Contact Authorization
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Skills

AWS
Bash
CloudFormation
Datadog
PostgreSQL
Prometheus
Python
Terraform

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